Improvement in printing-presses



'L [HIOK & W. FUSKET.

'Printing-Press.

N0. 166,675. l Patented Aug.10,1875.

UNITED STATES.

PATENT FFICE.

JAMES COOK AND WILLIAM FOSKET, OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT; SAID FOSKET ASSIGNOR TO SAID COOK.

IMPROVEMENT IN PRINTING-PRESSES.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 166,675, dated August 10, 1875; application led April 12,1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JAMES COOK and WILLIAM FOSKET, of Meriden, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Printing- Press; and we do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of :reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and' which said drawings constitute part of this specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of printing-presses commonly called toy or business presses; and consists in constructin g the ink-roll rest so that when in'use it may be sufficiently above the plane of the ink plate, and when not required for use turned around beneath the ink-plate, as hereinafter described.

P is the ink-plate; R, the rest for the inkroll handle. This rest is formed as a part of an arm, S, which extends beneath the inkplate, and is pivoted to a stud, T. The face of this stud is inclined to the longitudinal plane of the ink-plate. bearing for the arm S, hence the rest, when turned Outward, is up to the desired elevation above the surface of the ink-plate; but in turning it back and around the incline of the Witnesses JOSEPH MORSE, GEORGE N. MORSE.

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